WebProtégé is a free, open source collaborative ontology development environment.
It provides the following features:
- Support for editing OWL 2 ontologies
- A default simple editing interface, which provides access to commonly used OWL constructs
- Full change tracking and revision history
- Collaboration tools such as, sharing and permissions, threaded notes and discussions, watches and email notifications
- Customizable user interface
- Support for editing OBO ontologies
- Multiple file formats for upload and download of ontologies (supported formats: RDF/XML, Turtle, OWL/XML, OBO, and others)
WebProtégé runs as a Web application. End users access it through their Web browsers. They do not need to download or install any software. We encourage end-users to use
https://webprotege.stanford.edu
If you have downloaded the webprotege war file from GitHub, and would like to deploy it on your own server, please follow the instructions at:
https://github.com/protegeproject/webprotege/wiki/WebProtégé-3.0.0-Installation
To build WebProtégé from source
- Clone the github repository
git clone https://github.com/protegeproject/webprotege.git - Open a terminal in the directory where you clone the repository to
- Use maven to package WebProtégé
mvn package - The WebProtege .war file will be built into the webprotege-server directory